"fried chicken" news and stories

Maybe getting dolled up as the spitting image of Colonel Sanders (as lookalike C.J. Sizemore, above, did) isn't your first idea for a Halloween costume. But would you make like the portly white-suited southern man with the goatee if you were offered a lifetime of free fried chicken--or any KFC chicken, for that matter? Throw on the fake beard and the suit, and work a string tie like you were born in Louisville, then shoot a picture of yourself (from now until November 4th) to enter KFC's DoubliciousDouble Halloween costume contest (held to promote the chain's Doublicious sandwich and mark the 120th anniversary of Sanders' birth). The best doppelganger of the colonel wins. Even if it's your child or pet. (We're just guessing, but schnauzers might have an advantage, with the built-in beard.)

Last week we announced that Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen was taking on the Colonel in a taste test that pitted Louisiana cookin' against Kentucky's finest fried fowl.

This past Monday, Popeyes said that it beat KFC Original Recipe in a national taste test. Well, we just couldn't resist conducting our own.

With over 60 pieces of chicken breasts (we compared only white meat) lining the counters in the AOL kitchen, we asked the office to join us for our own taste test.

See if our co-workers agreed -- is Popeyes fried chicken better than KFC?

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is taking on the Colonel in a taste test that pits Louisiana cookin' against Kentucky's finest fried fowl.

Popeyes, part of AFC Enterprises, will announce the results of a national taste test versus Yum Brands' KFC as part of a campaign kicking off Monday, the New York Times reported.

In addition to the taste test results, the campaign will bring back the "Love that chicken from Popeyes" slogan that the company has used intermittently since the 1970s.

There was lots of finger lickin' in Louisville today.

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Colonel's Original Recipe, KFC fried up 2,000 pounds of chicken in the heart of its hometown in an attempt to steal the Guinness World Record for the "world's largest serving of fried chicken." The outsized order was served up in a mega version of KFC's iconic bucket -- 8 feet tall and 9 feet wide.

Last month, the town of Brookville, Indiana, unofficially broke the record, frying up 1,645 pounds of chicken as part of its annual Canoefest. That attempt was also dedicated to the legacy of Colonel Sanders, who was born in nearby Henryville. A KFC franchise in Kuwait held the previous official record with more than 1,278 pounds of fried chicken served at one setting.

Happy National Fried Chicken Day!

Diets be damned: Everybody's been talking about fried chicken lately. From east coasters Time Out New York's "Cheap Eats 2010" recommendations to thriving local fast food joints across the country, to one perceptive L.A. Times reporter on the opposite side of the U.S., everyone agrees: "Nobody is more devoted to fried chicken than Americans."

The bird trend has caught on with everyone from upscale eateries perfecting the process (the Brosberg Brothers at Blue Ribbon Bakery in NYC are renowned for their matzo-crusted Northern Fried Chicken), national fast-food chains (Popeyes, Kentucky Fried Chicken), ethnic eateries (most notably the expanding Korean fried chicken purveyor, BonChon) to the eternally treasured, old-school local joints -- Snoop Dog even went as far as to bring Larry King to the classic Californian chicken restaurant, Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles for CNN.

What local joint would you want to share with Snoop Dog and Larry King? Share your recommendations and partake in the fried chicken frenzy in the comments below!

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